Celibacy in the Ancient World
Title | Celibacy in the Ancient World PDF eBook |
Author | Dale Launderville |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Pages | 617 |
Release | 2010-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0814657346 |
Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus questions arise: What significance does such an individual, and such a choice, have for the human family and community as a whole? Is celibacy possible? Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy? These questions guide Dale Launderville, OSB, in his study of celibacy in the ancient cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece prior to Hellenism and the rise of Christianity. Launderville focuses especially on literary witnesses, because those enduring texts have helped to shape modern attitudes and can aid us in understanding the factors that may call forth the practice of celibacy in our own time. Readers will discover how celibacy fits within a context of relationships, and what kinds of relationships thus support a healthy and varied society, one aware of and oriented to its cosmic destiny. Dale Launderville, OSB, is professor of theology at Saint John's University School of Theology/Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Eerdmans, 2003) and Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's Symbolic Thinking (Baylor University Press, 2007).
A History of Celibacy
Title | A History of Celibacy PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Celibacy |
ISBN | 0684849437 |
What causes people to give up sex? Abbott's provocative and entertaining exploration of celibacy through the ages debunks traditional notions about celibacy--a practice that reveals much about human sexual desires and drives.
History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Title | History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Charles Lea |
Publisher | |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Celibacy |
ISBN |
Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity
Title | Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | David G. Hunter |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2007-01-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191535532 |
Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity is the first major study in English of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy. David G. Hunter examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. He provides a thorough analysis of the responses of Jovinian's main opponents, including Pope Siricius, Ambrose, Jerome, Pelagius, and Augustine. In the course of his discussion Hunter sheds new light on the origins of Christian asceticism, the rise of clerical celibacy, the development of Marian doctrine, and the formation of 'orthodoxy' and 'heresy' in early Christianity.
A History of Celibacy
Title | A History of Celibacy PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
Publisher | |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2004-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780756781897 |
From the vestal virgins of ancient Rome, who were entombed alive if they broke their vows, to contemporary athletes, who abstain to enhance their performance, celibacy has been found in every society of the past & present, a timeless phenomenon that transcends culture & religion. In this spirited & provocative history, Elizabeth Abbott examines celibacy over the span of 3,000 years . . . shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes & shamans, surfacing in classical poetry & camp literature, resonating in the voices of castrati, & permeating ancient mythology. As central to human nature as sex, celibacy has as many stories as adherents, & Abbott weaves them into a seamless tapestry that brings history alive.
History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Title | History of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Charles Lea |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Celibacy |
ISBN |
Celibacy in Crisis
Title | Celibacy in Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | A.W. Richard Sipe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2004-03 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1134001029 |
In the midst of the worst crisis the Catholic Church has seen in almost 500 years, this book challenges Catholic authorities to renew, rethink, or reform the long-standing institution of celibacy.